Hello, I was wondering with dataflow sanitizer what the preferred mechanism is for handling un-instrumented functions in external libraries?
I’m using a fresh download / build of 3.6 from github, specifically llvm, clang, and compiler-rt. I built them with cmake, and the “check-all” tests succeeded.
I’m able to run the dataflow sanitizer example code without a problem.
I then tweaked the example to also call the “readline” function. Here’s the modified code. When I tried to build it, I got an undefined linker error regarding “dfs$readline”, shown here.
From the dataflow design document, I thought the solution might be to write my own special-case file. That results in linker errors regarding functions like “dfsan_create_label”, show here.
The only solution that worked for me was to create a copy of the existing blacklist file “/home/cconvey/src/llvm-install/lib/clang/3.6.0/dfsan_abilist.txt”, add an entry for “readline” to the end of it, and specify that as my blacklist. That seemed to work fine, shown here.
Is that the preferred approach for the moment: cloning the “dfsan_abilist.txt” file, and appending external library functions as needed?